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Six Park launches ESG options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
Six Park has launched its first range of sustainable portfolios in partnership with a Melbourne-based financial advice firm. The online investment manager partnered with Summerhill Financial Services to deliver sustainable portfolio options to existing ...

Bell Financial Group profits up 44%

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
Bell Financial Group this morning said its net profit after tax for 2020 increased 44% to $46.7 million for the year ending December. The unaudited results precede the results announcement coming in February. Revenue increased 18% to $299 million. Earnings ...

ASIC takes fintech to court

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... that that costs of managing an investment property via an SMSF are "surprisingly low" compared with using a financial planner to select a series of managed investment funds, which ASIC found contentious. The Sydney-based firm ceased distributing the ...

Retiree strategies need greater attention: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
Traditional portfolio construction needs to change to provide for the needs of retiree clients, new research shows. Fidelity International with the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and CoreData released a report Building Better Retirement ...

Key advice reforms tabled

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
New regulation that requires financial advisers to disclose conflicts of interest and stamp out fees-for-no service have been tabled in parliament. The Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response No. 2) Bill 2020 aims to strengthen many ...

Government to wind up FASEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will be made redundant as two government bodies take over its remit. Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Senator Jane Hume announced on December 9 that ...

Shadforth executive moves to Akambo

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
The former head of advice for Shadforth has moved to Akambo Financial Group, a boutique dealer group with big growth plans. Rob Petrie has joined Akambo as head of private wealth. Previously, Akambo director and chief operating officer Joe Akiki was ...

FPA announces 2020 award winners

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
An adviser from Western Australia has won the FPA Certified Financial Planner Professional of the year award, as the association announces its 2020 award winners. Zacary Leeson of HPH Solutions took home the award as an acknowledgment to positive impact ...

Advice firms need technology to survive: FPA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... regulatory change that is coming through means that it is becoming virtually impossible to do business as a financial planner using old systems and old ways of operating," he said. "There are clear signs that digital advice is gaining momentum due to ...

FPA announces new specialist designation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has launched the FPA Aged Care Specialist professional designation. The FPA said it is committed to providing its members, and wider profession, with the skills and resources to meet the needs of ...